Local Artist Shows Paintings at Gallery 505
Julee du Plessis' oil paintings will be up at Gallery 505 in Whitefish Bay through Sunday.
In Julie du Plessis' paintings, ballerina arms reach to the sky, legs leap through the air, and bodies arch in patterns that pull the viewer into a timeless motion within thick globs of oil paint. Dozens of such pieces, some still wet with paint, are on display for sale at Gallery 505 until Sunday. Plessis is one of just two local artists the gallery regularly displays, and this weekend was the gallery's first solo show in two years. Du Plessis, who now lives in Glendale, grew up on a ranch in Arizona, which she credits for stirring in her a reverence for the delicacy of life and a feeling of transcendence that she often returns to in her artwork. "I would lie in the grass and imagine the whole universe while simultaneously entertaining …
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